On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Erik Moeller wrote:
Why don't we do the same thing with administrators? No need to do a global search & replace, just change the key pages and MediaWiki messages and leave old mentions of "adminship" on talk pages and such around. But change it to something like "janitor". Or at least something less formidable than "administrator", like "trusted user."
That'll be like claiming that RFCs, TFDs, etc. are not votes. The main thing you accomplish is that you make it easier to [[WP:BITE]] the newbies since now everyone has to avoid certain shibboleths in order to be taken seriously.